Academy of Urbanism Annual Congress 2018

28.06.2018

Author: David Flannery

David leads our Cork studio. He is also engaged with urban design and master-planning projects across the wider practice. David’s is particularly skilled at designing buildings which respond to and respect their context within an historic urban fabric. His abiding passion for urbanism and master-planning has secured commissions to design modern, vibrant, mixed-use interventions to sensitive sites within historic city cores.

David Flannery is a Director of Scott Tallon Walker Architects. Following extensive experience in Dublin’s docklands regeneration, he established the Cork office of STW in 2004 and has gone on to demonstrate the urban design and tourism potential of Cork Harbour, one of the world’s largest natural harbours, through the masterplanning of both Cobh Waterfront and Spike Island, a former military fortification at its centre. As well as large-scale dockland projects and campus design for some of the city’s major employers, he demonstrates the ability to design thoroughly modern buildings which respect and activate their context within the historic city core. He is currently spearheading the masterplan for the regeneration of a former 18th century brewery built on the original medieval Hiberno Viking settlement of the city, into a vibrant mixed-use precinct of student residences, employment, cultural and entertainment buildings that will also deliver a wealth of new public realm such as two new pedestrian bridges, a new public riverside quay, reinstated medieval laneways, a new public square and the eagerly anticipated Cork Events Centre, all within the main meander of the south channel of the River Lee. David is an active academician since 2014.

Philip Jackson is an Architect and Planner with Scott Tallon Walker Architects in Dublin. His work ranges from small-scale urban infill to large-scale urban masterplans. He is also Chair of the RIAI Urban Design Committee, which is developing the ‘RIAI Town and Village Toolkit’. A key component of the Toolkit is designing for ‘Health and happiness’.